Nguyen Duc Anh

L9923296

CSR
In recent years, corporate social responsibility is the main factor in the development of the
companies.However, there are many different ideas about whether corporate social responsibility
harms the company development or not. In the article The Case for social responsibility , published in
marketing monthly, in 2010, Meaning states that the companies might have many benefits from
corporate social responsibility. In contrast, in the article The case against Corporate Social
Responsibility, published in the Wall street journal , in 2010, Aneel Karnami argues that coporate social
responsibility can harm the companies development. This essay will critically respond both authors
ideas.
In the article The case for corporate social responsibility, Meaning has two arguments to support his
ideas. Firstly, he believes that corporate social responsible can help the society improve the
environment. Secondly, he states that Improving work conditions can bring benefits to company
reputation and profits. In contrast, Karnami have some different views about corporate social
responsibility. He notes that Improving environments and work conditions efforts just waste time and
harm the profits.
Meaning s argument that the rise of corporate social responsible has affected positively to pollution
prevention is less persuasive than Karnami s idea that corporate social responsible make sacrificing
profits, so the company efforts that try to reduce the pollution has negative effects on company profits.
Karnami s idea seems overstate the fact that if the companies do not invest in polluted prevention
system, when they was caught, the money that solve the problem is more than the money which is

invested to prevent the problem. For example, when the companies was caught to polluting the
environment, there are many negative impacts on the polluting company, namely damaging reputation,
consumption and losing market. In addition, in some countries such as Singapore, there are some strict
policies about pollution. In fact, the polluting companies will be charged the fees for the companies that
polluted the environment and in the worst situation; these companies will be forced to close
permanently.
Meanings idea that improving labor conditions can bring more profits from the customers is more
persuasive than Karnamis idea that it is just suffering problem for company profits. Improving the work
conditions can bring many benefits for the companies such as more loyal and working effectively. In
fact, in Google, they offer a lot of great work conditions for their employees to help them can work
more effectively in order to increase their productivity. Moreover, nowadays, it is a strong connection
between companies profits and their reputation. To illustrate, if the companies are caught that they are
using sweatshops, their reputation will be damaged and the consumption also will be decreased.
In conclusion, , in the articles, both author argues some points about whether corporate social
responsibility harm the company development or not. While Meaning idea that improving
environments can help the companies bring more benefits and reputations, Karnami states that the
effort to protect the environments just effect negatively on companies profits. Moreover, the second
idea of Karnami seems to overstates the fact that employees are the important part of company
development , so when the companies improve work conditions, it mean they also increase their profits.